Ruling device.



- N 874 588. PATENTED DEC. 24 I907.

0 v J. w. HAYS.

RULING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY13.1907.

OJJaZ/ Eggs JOSEPH W. HAYS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RULING 'nEvr'cn.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Patented Dec. 24, 1907.

Application filed July 13,1907. swam). 383,641-' My invention relates to devices which are adapted for use by book-keepers and others for ruling either double or single lines of one or two or more colors. The ob ect of my invention is to provide an economically constructed and easily manipulated ruling device that can be adj usted so as to rule lines as stated, and automatic ally take the ink from a source which will not rer uire frequent replenishing, substantially as hereinafter fully described and as particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a vertical central section through a ruling device made according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a verticalsidc elevation of the rotatable member having the handle removed. Fig. 3 is a de tail perspective view of the same showing the closing disk removed. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the bearing arms of the handle. tion of a slightly modified arrangement of the ruling disks. Fig. 6- is an enlarged fragmental end view showing a ruling disk such as used for ruling double lines.

, In the drawings, Arepresents the circular or polygonal shaped box of the ink reservoir, one side of which is closed by a head B, the edges of which are snapped into and held by the rabbetcd edges of the box, substantially as shown, or in any other suitable manner. Both the closed side of the box and saidhead B are provided with central openings out through which the reduced journals 1), b, of the spindle a project. The outer ends of these journals are suitably secured. in openings in the ends C of a suitable handle which, preferably, consists of a strip of metalbent double at its center of length, and terminates in ends C, which latter normally press-toward each other. Near the opening in the end C adjacent to the head B, I indent the metal of the same so as to form a boss (1 which pro jects from its inner surface sufficiently far to enable it tosnap into one or the other of suitable oppositely arranged concave seats 6 in the outer surfaces of the head B.

I prefer to divide the interior of the box of Fig. 5 is a vertical side elevathe reservoir into two compartments (as shown in Fig. 3) by means of a diametrically arranged integral web or partition D the outer ends of which merge into and are connected with the circumferential walls of the compartments. The inner ends of this partition mer e into each other and formatubular boss'E located in the center of the receptacle that is adapted to provide a bearing for the central portion of the spindle a. This partition is substantially at right angles to the plane intersecting the concave seats e in the head B and divide the interior of the magazine'into two separate and distinct'ink compartments that are preferably filled with a suitable inking element of different colors. The outer walls of each of these compartments has an elongated slot therein through which the inner segment of ruling disks G and G revolve. These ruling disks are placed between and journaled in lugs g, g, projecting a slight distance from the outer circumference of the receptacle, and said disks are of such dimensions that they can revolve freely and yet fit snugly in the slot in the circumferential walls of the ink compartments. One of these disks may have a circumferential groove H in its circumference so as to enable it to mark a double line, but the circumference of the other disk is, preferably, solid and unbroken so as to make a single line.

In operation, where the partition is omitted, the magazine is filled with ink, and revolved on its spindle until the disk with which it is desired to rule, is lowermost, whereupon the boss will snap into the concave seat a in the head B. of the ink ma azine and hold it temporarily in its adjuste( position while the ruling is done by moving the disk over the paper, and the direction in which it is desired the device to travel. is directed by a suitable ruler or straight edge. When a single line is wanted one disk is used, and the magazine is rotated until the position of the" disks are reversed. When the ink reservoir is divided into two or more compartments it is desirable to provide the circumferential walls of said compartment with two slots, substantially as shown in Fig. 5, of

the drawings, and to have a single line disk the magazine would be provided with four concave seats 0, e, for the boss to engage in order to retain the magazine in a stationary position while the particular disk is being use What I claim as new is:

1. A ruling device comprising a suitable receptacle having an g element contained therein, and a ruling disk j ournaled in the side face of said receptacle and receiving its ink su ply from said inking element.

2. A ing device comprisin a rotatable receptacle having an inking e ement contained therein, and ruling disks journaled in the side face of said receptacle and receiving their ink supply from said inking element, the periphery of said disks being of different construction from each other.

3. A ruling device comprising a rotatable receptacle having an inking element con tained therein, ruling disks journaled in the.

side face of said receptacle and receiving their ink supply from said inking element,

the periphery of said disks being of different construction from each other, and means for temporarily holding said receptacle in an adjusted position;

4. A ruling device comprising a suitable handle, a rotatable receptacle journaledin the end of said handle and provided with compartments each containing an element, a series of seats on the side face of and ruling disks j ournaled in the side face of said receptacle, one adjacent to one of said compartments and the other adjacent to the opposite compartment,l and each receiving its ink supply from the inking element in its respective compartment.

6. A ruling device comprising a rotatable hollow receptacle provided with a central partition dividing the same into two compartments, inking elements containing different colors inclosed within said compart ments, one or more ruling disks for each compartment that are mounted on the side face of the receptacleand receive their ink supply from the respective" inking element adjacent to which they are mounted.

-In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 5th day of July, A. D.

JOSEPH W. HAYS. [n s.] Witnesses:

E. M. LUNDY, M. G. S'roLL. 

